Issue Details

Issue	#80
Published	August 1948
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Robert Kanigher (actual editor)

Cover Details - "The Swinging Scimitar"

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Harry G. Peter?
Inks	Harry G. Peter?

12 page Wonder Woman story "The Swinging Scimitar"

Characters	Wonder Woman; Don Enrago; Etta Candy; Holliday Girls; Marcia
Synopsis	One of the Holliday Girls fencing squad appears to go crazy and begin leading a criminal gang.
Genre	superhero
Script	Robert Kanigher
Pencils	Harry G. Peter (signed)
Inks	Harry G. Peter

1 page Old Nick In The Nick of Time advertisement "At The Midget Auto Races"

6 page Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys story "No Time For Crime"

Characters	Little Boy Blue; Toughy; Tubby; Sheridan; Prodd
Synopsis	The Blue Boys battle crime in a factory full of giant labor saving devices.
Genre	superhero; children
Pencils	Frank Harry
Inks	Frank Harry
Notes	credits by Jerry Bails

1 page Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream Oil advertisement "The Man With the Purple Hand"

Characters	Sam Spade; Effie
Pencils	Lou Fine

1 page Funny Facts filler

Genre	fact
Script	Martin Naydel
Pencils	Martin Naydel
Inks	Martin Naydel
Notes	credits by Jerry Bails

5 page Sargon the Sorceror story "The Cage of Lightning"

Characters	Sargon; Miss Morevilt; Voltini
Synopsis	Sargon is hired to magically cut the Morevilt Diamond. but Voltini would rather steal it, and all the other Morevilt diamonds to boot.
Genre	supernatural
Pencils	Paul Reinman
Inks	Paul Reinman

1 page Ma Nature's Curiosity Shop filler

Genre	fact
Script	Martin Naydel
Pencils	Martin Naydel
Inks	Martin Naydel
Notes	credits by Jerry Bails

6 page Willy NIlly story "Be Your Own Private Eye"

Characters	Willy Nilly; Betty; Dexter Dumwood
Synopsis	Willy is upset because Betty made a date with Dexter Dumwood.
Genre	teen humor
Pencils	Frank Harry
Inks	Frank Harry

1 page Science Snaps filler

Genre	fact
Script	Martin Naydel
Pencils	Martin Naydel
Inks	Martin Naydel
Notes	credits by Jerry Bails

2 page text article "Mount Everest- Giant of the Globe"

Genre	fact
Script	Ted Udall [as Charles King]
Letters	typeset

7 page Wildcat story "The Menace of Sound"

Characters	Wildcat; Rex Velon; Professor Rell; his daughter
Synopsis	Rex Velon kidnaps Prof Rell's daughter to force him to tell him the secret of using sound waves to paralyze people.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Arthur Peddy
Notes	credits by Jerry Bails

1 page Margaret O'Brien, Prince Company advertisement "At a Hollywood Party"

Characters	Margaret O'Brien
Synopsis	Margaret shows you how to make your own candy with the Margaret O'Brien candy kitchen.